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A Salute to Outstanding Educators
A few years after graduate school and before I moved into the corporate world, I had the good fortune to teach at a university for a couple of years with remarkable fellow professors. I was recently reflecting just how much I learned from these devoted fa
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Sideways
There’s a big problem in the online learning world. There’s content out there that’s of marginal quality at best, and corporate budget-meisters look askance at the prospect of more spending in the field with uncertain payoffs. Although higher quality is p
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Driving Greater Value From an LMS
Anyone who’s been involved in the planning, selection and implementation of a learning management system knows the feeling. They know the feeling of one day waking up and realizing that the LMS hasn’t delivered the anticipated returns that had been touted
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Cerner: Providing a Hub for Learning
In an industry as complex as health-care IT, associate and client training is crucial to a company�s success. Cerner committed itself to investing in learning and development with the launch in 1996 of Cerner Virtual University. Robert Campbell, a learn
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Making Your LMS Dance
It’s time for learning executives to have a heart-to-heart conversation with their LMS. Ask them if they are ready to dance to the music of performance, profitability, talent management and extreme learning. Tell your LMS that your company is ready to hav
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Targeting Learning to the Social Network
Coach Tom Coughlin of the New York Giants knows something about training and development. When the Giants lost a game to the Seattle SeaHawks in overtime, Coughlin said, “It takes a whole team to win—teamwork wins every time over individual effort.” The r
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The Power of the Human Voice
One of the most powerful and underused learning tools readily available to the CLO is the recorded human voice. With widely dispersed knowledge workers whose expertise is in need of constant updating and expansion, it is surprising how few companies use t
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The Business Approach: Increasing Profits Through Marketing Methodologies
Learning executives are challenged to “sell” the benefits of an intangible need to those wanting tangible results. External consultants understand this obstacle. However, when those responsible for learning and development propose solutions, they often










